Windows Server Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Windows Server
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 48 55
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 104 213 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.51% 3.78% 3.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% 21.41% 19.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 134 167
10th Percentile £330 £263 £219
25th Percentile £455 £380 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £609 £595 £631
90th Percentile £661 £608 £694
England median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 10
10th Percentile - £36.75 £29.90
25th Percentile - £56.50 £43.81
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.13% +64.29%
75th Percentile - £66.13 £76.03
90th Percentile - £68.63 £88.25
England median hourly rate £35.88 £38.50 £29.30
% change year-on-year -6.82% +31.40% +33.18%

All Operating Systems
South East

Windows Server falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 520 995 1,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.54% 17.64% 20.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 649 860
10th Percentile £200 £199 £190
25th Percentile £325 £225 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £592
90th Percentile £663 £640 £675
England median daily rate £475 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +5.56% -13.46% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 66 61
10th Percentile £15.78 £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.24 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £43.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.88% -10.42% +140.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -24.14% +38.10%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the South East over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -8 51 £500 -13.04% 61
Hampshire +4 44 £575 +6.98% 24
Berkshire -8 39 £532 -7.57% 33
Buckinghamshire +10 11 £370 +85.00% 13
Surrey +7 6 £400 +17.65% 9
West Sussex +7 1 £250 -37.50% 2
Oxfordshire 0 1 £275 -24.14% 17
East Sussex - 1 £163 -
Sussex - 1 - -
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (12.50%) IIS
2 12 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.85%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (2.88%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.92%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.96%) WinCC
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.38%) Azure
2 26 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (15.38%) AWS
3 16 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 14 (13.46%) SaaS
5 12 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.65%) Entra ID
7 8 (7.69%) GCP
8 5 (4.81%) GitHub
8 5 (4.81%) IaaS
8 5 (4.81%) PaaS
9 4 (3.85%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.92%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.96%) Akamai
11 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.96%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (24.04%) DNS
2 15 (14.42%) DHCP
3 13 (12.50%) Firewall
4 12 (11.54%) SMTP
5 8 (7.69%) SSL
5 8 (7.69%) VPN
6 6 (5.77%) HTTP
6 6 (5.77%) TCP/IP
7 5 (4.81%) HTTPS
7 5 (4.81%) NetScaler
7 5 (4.81%) Network Security
8 3 (2.88%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (2.88%) FTP
8 3 (2.88%) iSCSI
8 3 (2.88%) NGFW
8 3 (2.88%) VSAN
9 2 (1.92%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (1.92%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (1.92%) Telnet
9 2 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.62%) Big Data
2 9 (8.65%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.88%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Git
1 5 (4.81%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.62%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (1.92%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (10.58%) Senior
2 11 (10.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (10.58%) Support Engineer
3 10 (9.62%) Architect
4 9 (8.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (6.73%) Applications Packager
6 6 (5.77%) DV Cleared Application Packager
6 6 (5.77%) Security Architect
6 6 (5.77%) Server Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) 3rd Line Support
7 5 (4.81%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) Analyst
7 5 (4.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 5 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) Windows Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.88%) Apache Axis
1 3 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (2.88%) SAML
2 2 (1.92%) .NET
2 2 (1.92%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.96%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.96%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.96%) EDI
3 1 (0.96%) JSON
3 1 (0.96%) MSMQ
3 1 (0.96%) REST
3 1 (0.96%) SOAP
3 1 (0.96%) WCF
3 1 (0.96%) XML
3 1 (0.96%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.50%) Clustering
2 12 (11.54%) PKI
3 11 (10.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (10.58%) Public Cloud
4 10 (9.62%) Onboarding
5 9 (8.65%) Data Centre
6 7 (6.73%) Client/Server
7 6 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.96%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.96%) SCADA
9 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 104 (100.00%) Windows
2 35 (33.65%) Linux
3 27 (25.96%) Windows 10
4 23 (22.12%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (19.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (15.38%) Ubuntu
7 11 (10.58%) CentOS
7 11 (10.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (9.62%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (4.81%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.96%) Android
11 1 (0.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (20.19%) Agile
3 20 (19.23%) DevOps
4 19 (18.27%) Application Packaging
5 17 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (14.42%) DevSecOps
7 14 (13.46%) ITIL
8 11 (10.58%) Change Control
9 10 (9.62%) Configuration Management
9 10 (9.62%) High Availability
9 10 (9.62%) Migration
10 9 (8.65%) Server Building
11 7 (6.73%) Application Virtualisation
11 7 (6.73%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 6 (5.77%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (5.77%) Service Management
12 6 (5.77%) Technical Leadership
13 5 (4.81%) Artificial Intelligence
13 5 (4.81%) Continuous Delivery
13 5 (4.81%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 60 (57.69%) PowerShell
2 20 (19.23%) SQL
3 15 (14.42%) Python
4 9 (8.65%) VBScript
5 5 (4.81%) C#
5 5 (4.81%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.88%) Java
7 2 (1.92%) Bicep
7 2 (1.92%) Ruby
7 2 (1.92%) VB
8 1 (0.96%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.96%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 72 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 41 (39.42%) DV Cleared
3 31 (29.81%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.69%) Degree
5 5 (4.81%) CISSP
5 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.85%) MCSE
7 3 (2.88%) CISM
7 3 (2.88%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.88%) VCP5
7 3 (2.88%) VCP6
7 3 (2.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.96%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.96%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.88%) SLA
2 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.96%) IEC 61131
2 1 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 50 (48.08%) Active Directory
2 34 (32.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (22.12%) vSphere
4 17 (16.35%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (12.50%) Hyper-V
6 10 (9.62%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (4.81%) BitLocker
7 5 (4.81%) Docker
7 5 (4.81%) NFS
7 5 (4.81%) Terminal Services
7 5 (4.81%) XenApp
7 5 (4.81%) XenDesktop
8 4 (3.85%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (2.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.96%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (22.12%) vCenter Server
2 21 (20.19%) Ansible
3 18 (17.31%) Kubernetes
4 17 (16.35%) Terraform
5 15 (14.42%) SCCM
5 15 (14.42%) WSUS
6 11 (10.58%) Nessus
7 10 (9.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (9.62%) SCOM
8 5 (4.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (4.81%) Nagios
8 5 (4.81%) Puppet
8 5 (4.81%) vMotion
9 4 (3.85%) NetBackup
10 3 (2.88%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (2.88%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (2.88%) SCSM
11 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.96%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 56 (53.85%) VMware
2 47 (45.19%) Microsoft
3 17 (16.35%) Dell
4 15 (14.42%) Red Hat
5 14 (13.46%) Citrix
5 14 (13.46%) HP
6 8 (7.69%) SolarWinds
6 8 (7.69%) Symantec
6 8 (7.69%) Wyse
7 5 (4.81%) Databricks
7 5 (4.81%) Google
8 4 (3.85%) 3PAR
8 4 (3.85%) Juniper
8 4 (3.85%) Veeam
8 4 (3.85%) Veritas
9 3 (2.88%) Cisco
9 3 (2.88%) NetApp
9 3 (2.88%) NETGEAR
9 3 (2.88%) Splunk
9 3 (2.88%) TP-LINK